WEST LAFAYETTE — Dan Hasler, president of Purdue Research Foundation announced that Chad Pittman, a respected Indiana economic development leader, will be the vice president of the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization.

Pittman, who recently served as the executive vice president and chief of staff of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, was instrumental in bringing hundreds of companies to Indiana in the past five years. He earned a J.D. from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, a bachelor's degree from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business and attended the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.